Life in the Time of Oil: A Pipeline and Poverty in Chad

by Lori Leonard

Life in the Time of Oil examines the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project--a partnership between global oil companies, the World Bank, and the Chadian government that was an ambitious scheme to reduce poverty in one of the poorest countries on the African continent. Key to the project was the development of a marginal set of oilfields that had only recently attracted the interest of global oil companies who were pressed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025301980X
• ISBN13: 9780253019806
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher